The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 11
The eight Genii nodded their eight heads, and spoke all at once, and the noise they made was like the rumble of thunder among the mountains.
Who acts: eight Genii, heads, noise · What happens: nod, speak, make, be · To what, where: eight heads, noise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eight Genii, heads, noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Genii | det |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Genii | nummod |
| 3 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nodded | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nodded | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 once | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 spoke | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rumble | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rumble | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rumble | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noise | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rumble | cop |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 rumble | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rumble | det |
| 23 | rumble | rumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 thunder | case |
| 25 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rumble | nmod |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 mountains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountains | det |
| 28 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nodded | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the eight Genii | seeds's eight heads | among the mountains | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | once property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | heads = head | the noise not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the noise | like the rumble; of thunder | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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